If you're writing that, you're crazy. But, if you wanted to do that, then you are probably going to have written some crazy multimethod signature which will disambiguate. And, if the parser can't deal with it, your maintainer sure as heck won't be able to deal with it.

The colon disambiguates it:

And, to this statement, I can only say "Parentheses should be disambiguating it". If you're depending on a colon, which is on the same key as the semi-colon (the most-used character in C-type languages, I might add) ... I have the same feeling about this as I do about an organization who knows its database schema is bad, but refuses to stop new development. *shrugs*

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In reply to Re: Re^7: Get rid of the Indirect Syntax, please! by dragonchild
in thread On the Improvement of Exegesis 12 by Anonymous Monk

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